[Bug 947236] Re: Please provide /etc/os-release

[Adam Conrad]

Verified on both quantal and precise with the following steps:

[precise]
1) From a base precise release, upgrade to the current proposed version, and verify that /etc/os-release exists with the correct contents and is listed as a conffile.
2) From a base precise release, upgrade to the previous broken proposed version, then update to the current one, verify that /etc/os-release was not a conffile before, and was properly migrated after the upgrade.

[quantal]
1) From a base quantal release, upgrade to the proposed version, and verify that /etc/os-release was correctly migrated to being a conffile, and retains the original contents.


** Tags removed: verification-needed
** Tags added: verification-done

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to base-files in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947236

Title:
  Please provide /etc/os-release

Status in “base-files” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “base-files” source package in Precise:
  Fix Committed
Status in “base-files” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Committed
Status in “base-files” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  /etc/os-release is a new upcoming attempt of a standard which is meant
  to supersede /etc/debian_version, and their counterparts in
  Fedora/SUSE: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-
  release.html

  /etc/lsb_release is similar to this, but not standardized. The
  standard interface right now is to call lsb_release which is a Python
  script and thus a very high overhead compared to merely reading a
  file.

  [SRU justification for quantal and resubmission for precise]

  The original attempt at including os-release didn't mark it as a conffile and, as such,
  when upgrading to raring, which does so, this caused some migration issues.  To mitigate
  that, and not have to have md5sums and magic preinsts for every precise and quantal version forever, I'm SRUing to quantal and re-submitting the precise SRU with conffile
  migrations, so the affected non-conffile window is only a few versions from Q.

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/947236/+subscriptions